Kryolan is truly a gem, nestled in our own Bay Area cosmos of cosmetics. From the outside, the only hint of the colorful, creative world inside the non-descript warehouse are the large banners of beautiful faces hanging in the windows. Inside, there are industrial vats mixing pigments galore, in all kinds of formulations for all kinds of companies — names you’d recognize and ones that they are not allowed to disclose.

You may have read the BUZZ item in Sunday’s Syle section about Dominic Cruz, the company’s creative director, who flew to the Bahamas to make up the Miss Universe contestants along with an international team.

Since Kryolan was the official cosmetic sponsor of the show, it was up to Cruz to come up with the perfect palette for the bevy of 84 beauties.

Hard at work behind the scenes ….

He was still traveling and unavailable to give us any dish on what exact shade of red lipstick winner Stefania Fernandez from Venezuela was wearing, but she looked great! We trust it will be for sale at the Ninth Street HQ soon.